ANDHRA PRADESH SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION

COMPANY LIMITED
COMPANY: ANDHRA PRADESH SOUTHERN POWER DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LIMITED
DESCRIPTION:
Andhra Pradesh the State which is located at Southern part of India.
Having 13 Districts and electrically divided into two zones APEPDCL
(Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited) and
APSPDCL (Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited).
Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited is Electricity
Distribution Company maintained by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for
the Eight Southern Districts of Andhra Pradesh.
HISTORY
The Southern Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh ltd was incorporated under the
companies Act, 1956 as a public limited company on 01-04-2000 with headquarters at Tirupati to carryout
electricity distribution for districts of Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore, Chittoor, Kadapa, Anantapur
and Kurnool Districts.
VISION OF APSPDCL
To create an organization that is profitable, viable, responsive, serving the needs of the customer,
suppliers and employees.
MISSION OF APSPDCL
Commercial Objectives:
Eliminating pilferage of energy
Reducing arrears
Operational Objectives:
Minimizing Technical/Transmission Losses
Reducing transformer failures
Maintaining rolling stock of additional DTRs at every sub-station level to avoid delays in replacing the
failed units.
Social Objectives:
Electrification of Dalith Wadas(Slum areas)
Electrification of poor colonies
Providing uninterrupted power supply to the consumers
Providing better service tto the consumers.
Regulatory Objectives:
To function as per the guidelines issued by APERC
To continuously monitor the progress of various directives issued by APERC.

Installation of Power Plants

The State Andhra Pradesh having different types of power plants and it having both conventional
type and non-conventional type of power plants.
Conventional Power plants:
Coal Based power plants
Diesel Based power plants
Gas Based power plants
Large Hydro power plants
Non-conventional power plants:
Wind Power plants
Solar Power plants
Hydel power plants
Tidal Power plants etc.
Installed Capacity of Andhra Pradesh

S.No. Name & Address of Power Station No. of Units Installed Capacity
I Thermal Power
1 Dr Narla Tata Rao (Vijayawada) TPS 6x210 MW 1260.0 MW
Stage-I,II,III
2 Dr Narla Tats Rao (Vijayawada) TPS 1x500 MW 500.0 MW
Stage-IV
3 Rayalaseema TPP Stage-I,II,III & IV 5x210 MW + 1x600 1650.0 MW
MW
Total 3410.0 MW
II Hydel Power
1 Machkund PH(APGENCO share:70%) 3x17 MW + 3x23 84.0 MW
MW=120 MW(share-
84.0)
2 Tung Bhadra Dam PH 4x9MW=36 MW 28.8 MW
(share-28.0)
3 Hampi PH 4x9 MW =36 28.8 MW
MW(Share-28.0)
4 Upper Sileru PH 4x60 MW 240.0 MW
5 Donkarayi Canal PH 1x25 MW 25 MW
6 Lower Sileru PH 4x115 MW 460.0 MW
7 Srisailam Right Bank PH 7x110 Mw 770.0 MW
 8 Nagarjunasagar Right Canal PH 3x30 MW 90.0 MW
9 Penna Ahobilam HES 2x10 MW 20.0MW
10 Chettipeta Mini Hydel 2x0.5 MW 1.0 MW
11 Nagarjuna Sagar Tail Pond Power House 2x25 MW 50 MW
Total Hydro 1797.6 MW
III Non-Conventional Power
1 5.426 MWp Solar PV Plant, Ungatur 1x5.426 MW 5.426 MW
Total Non-Conventional Power 5.426 MW
Grand Total (A+B+C)

APSPDCL GROWTH FROM 2012 TO 2017

APSPDCL is rapidly or gradually increases its growth in various departments like sub stations,
distribution line 33kv and 11kv lines, distribution transformers, power transformers, consumers and
reduction of distribution of losses.
In 2017 March 31st units sold is 30734.43 Million Units, Number of 33/11 KV Sub stations are
2045, 33 KV lines in kilo meters 18800, 11 KV lines in kilo meters 1732284, low tension lines is 240136
KM, Distribution Transformers are 544505, Power Transformers 2625, Total number of consumers are
1,13,79,916, and the distribution losses are 8.47%, distribution Transformers failures 5.98%.
Above data as of 2017 31st March. And from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 is shown in below
table and that table shows how the growth is takes place.

Year ended 31st 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012

March
Units Sold (Million 30734.43 28709.57 26361.61 18024.46 16444.84 16388.21
Units)
No. of 33/11 KV 2045 2015 1982 1461 1253 1125
Sub stations
Length of 33 KV 18800 18660 18518 13042.38 12069.21 11452.63
line in KM
Length of 11 KV 173284 148615 143345 105673.92 101847.36 99211.86
line in KM
Length of LT line 240136 217185 212289 15619.42 154230.30 151798.34
in KM
Number of 544505 512619 460455 313976 300244 280985
Distribution
Transformers
Number of power 2625 2592 2563 1884 1570 1440
Transformers
Number of 1,13,79,9 1,07,01,263 1,02,72,545 76,10,665 73,26,195 70,26,704
Consumers 16,
Distribution 8.47 8.48 10.31 10.68 10.71 11.29
Losses (%)
Distribution 5.98 7.91 6.81 7.16 6.53 7.94
Transformer
failures(%)
AT & C Losses 14.42 11.84 12.16 11.68 9.90 11.12
 Average 4.93 4.50 3.50 3.59 3.20 2.64
Realisation per
unit(rupees)

APSPDCL is having some agreements with various generating stations to fulfil the requirements
of their customers. Thermal plants they are consuming lot of power compared to other power plants.
Even there is some renewable sources is also agreed but that also not meeting the demand. So much
of demand is meet by using thermal based power plants.
APSPDCL is the company is giving 24x7 reliable power to their customers.
They were taking some awareness on renewable sources.
FUTURE PLANS:
APSPDCL plans to undertake a capital expenditure of Rs. 137,425.50 million between 2016-17 and 2020-
21. A significant portion of these funds will be used to add 67,609 ckt. Km to its line length and 26,712
MVA of transformer capacity during 2016-17 to 2019-20.
Its future plans include metering reforms by installing smart meters for high-value consumers and prepaid
meters for government and public sector consumers. Some of the other initiatives planned by APSPDCL
include the adoption of dynamic tariff for selected consumer categories, which is likely to prepare the
DISCOM better to compete in the market and convert high variable cost stations into flexible generators
for cost optimization. For encouraging the use of cleaner and sustainable energy sources, the DISCOM has
come up with a proposal to install 30,000 grid-connected solar pumpsets in the next three years.
CHALLENGES:
APSPDCL is facing problem in summer season to provide good quality and reliable power to their
customers due to lack of power generation. Due to this APSPDCL is going conduct some awareness
programs on renewable energy system to their customers in order to overcome lack of power.
APSPDCL facing problem on power theft it taking some action regarding power theft and keeping some
security to avoid power thefts.

Bibliography:
https://www.apspdcl.in/ShowProperty/SP_CM_REPO/Pages/Company%20Information/Annual%20Repo
rts/17th%20Annual%20Report%2009.04.2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh_Southern_Power_Distribution_Company_Limited
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_sector_of_Andhra_Pradesh
https://www.apgenco.gov.in/getInfo.do?dt=1&oId=8